Funeral services · Small-town market · Wisconsin
Funeral homes in the Stevens Point-Plover, WI area
How the Stevens Point-Plover, WI area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for funeral homes: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 65 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #91 of 365 scored small-town markets
#3 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Wisconsin
- Listings
- 5
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 6
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $3.9M
- On funerals · $131 a household
- Spending per listing
- $775K
- 14% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 1.7
- 19% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 71,943
- +2.2% since 2020
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What this means
Households in the Stevens Point-Plover area spend about $3.9M a year on funerals, or $131 per household, 9% below the U.S. average. That is about $775K of household spending for each home on map listings, 14% above the U.S. figure of $679K.
The Stevens Point-Plover area has 5 funeral homes on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations, against 10% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 1.7, 19% below the U.S. rate of 2.1.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Stevens Point-Plover area was 6 in 2023. That is one for every 4,947 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $2M has gone to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Stevens Point-Plover area.
Population estimates put the population change in the Stevens Point-Plover area from 2020 to 2025 at +2.2%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for funeral homes in the Stevens Point-Plover area is 65 (upper middle), #91 of 365 scored small-town markets and #3 of 13 scored small-town markets based in Wisconsin. That puts it in the top quarter of small-town markets.
How the Stevens Point-Plover area compares
The same measures for Wisconsin and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all funerals by the funeral homes counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Stevens Point-Plover area | Wisconsin | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 1.7 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
| Spending per listing | $775K | $544K | $679K |
| Households per official establishment | 4,947 | 6,004 | 8,510 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −1.7% | −1.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +2.2% | +1.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on funerals | $131 | $140 | $143 |
| Median household income | $76,070 | $77,485 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 65 | 33 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 6
- Employees, 2023
- 21
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $1.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 50 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 6The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 1
- Amount
- $2M
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as funeral homes and funeral services in the Stevens Point-Plover area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Stevens Point-Plover area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 71,943+2.2% since 2020
- Households
- 29,679
- Median age
- 40.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 801 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 88
- Median household income
- $76,070+29.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $94,142
- Median home value
- $243,100
- Jobs located here
- 33,759
- Daytime population
- 69,944Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Wisconsin market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Wisconsin for funeral homes, numbered among those based in Wisconsin, with the Stevens Point-Plover area marked.
Top small-town markets in Wisconsin
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI | 71 | 8 | 2.5 | $671K | −0.2% | #55 of 365 |
| 2Whitewater-Elkhorn, WI | 68 | 13 | 3.0 | $500K | +0.8% | #75 of 365 |
| 3Stevens Point-Plover, WI | 65 | 5 | 1.7 | $775K | +2.2% | #91 of 365 |
| 4Marinette, WI-MI | 63 | 11 | 3.7 | $470K | +0.3% | #101 of 365 |
| 5Baraboo, WI | 57 | 9 | 3.2 | $467K | +1.3% | #132 of 365 |
| 6Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI | 55 | 9 | 2.6 | $526K | +0.3% | #145 of 365 |
| 7Menomonie, WI | 54 | 5 | 2.9 | $462K | +1.7% | #150 of 365 |
| 8Manitowoc, WI | 54 | 15 | 4.3 | $362K | +0.4% | #155 of 365 |
| 9Shawano, WI | 52 | 8 | 4.3 | $384K | +1.4% | #166 of 365 |
| 10Rice Lake, WI | 49 | 8 | 4.0 | $420K | −0.5% | #183 of 365 |
Other business types in the Stevens Point-Plover area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many funeral homes are in the Stevens Point-Plover, WI area?
Map listings as of September 2026 show 5 funeral homes in the Stevens Point-Plover area. None of them are chain locations. The listings count funeral homes, mortuaries and cremation services. Official counts show 6 businesses with payroll classed as funeral homes and funeral services in 2023.
How much do households in the Stevens Point-Plover, WI area spend on funerals?
About $3.9M a year, or $131 per household. That is 9% below the U.S. average (an index of 91, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 5 funeral homes on map listings, it comes to $775K per home. It is estimated from the incomes of the 29,679 households in the Stevens Point-Plover area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Stevens Point-Plover, WI area compare with the U.S. for funeral homes?
The Stevens Point-Plover area has 1.7 funeral homes per 10,000 households, 19% below the U.S. rate of 2.1. Spending per home is $775K, 14% above the U.S. figure of $679K. At the U.S. ratio of funeral homes to household spending, the Stevens Point-Plover area would have about 6, against 5 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 4,947 households, against one for every 8,510 across the U.S.
How fast is the Stevens Point-Plover, WI area growing?
Population estimates put the Stevens Point-Plover area at 71,943 people in 2025, up 2.2% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 29,679 households. The median household income in the Stevens Point-Plover area is $76,070 a year, 6% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 29.3% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Stevens Point-Plover area scores 65 for funeral homes (upper middle), #91 of 365 scored small-town markets.
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